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if you have a waypoint file active, with over 200 waypoints that have comments in them, direct route cannot give you the name of the street for the next turn.

www.easygps.com free software that will create gpx files. give everyone a gpx file to download, and then they can use the free program to transfer to and from their gps.

I have an etrex vista (like the legend but with a compass) and an explorist 500. Form what I;ve noticed. the explorist holds a lock a lot better, especially in bad conditions. I've also never had a waas lock with the vista, but get them all the time with the explorist.

I've seen posts with rumors of a Garmin with an SD card slot by next summer. I know that the latest versions of garmin's mapping programs are switching to the GPX file standard, instead of the old proprietary one. Wouldn't be too much of a strech to see the model with the SD slot being able to directly read a GPX file. Wouldn't that be cool? Even cooler if it would display a whole cache page like GPXSonar.

That did it!!! I disabled McAfee and now it works just fine. thanks for the tip. Now, can someone tell me how to exclude just the directory, so I don;t have to disable the whole virus scanner? thanks jjb

try an explorist. unlimited memory is nice. I have every geocache and benchmark in the state of utah in my gps. Not to mention a bunch of other stuff too. I wouldn;thave bought a magellan, but it was free, thanks to the be there contest. I really think the garmins are superior, with more features, more customization, more data visible at a time etc. But, there is something to be said about unlimited memory. jjb

I'm running the latest version of GSAK, under XP pro. I have a macro I use that exports out a whole lot of GPX files for me, as well as waypoint & geocache files for the magellan explorist. Lately whenever I run it, it crahses, and says it can't create the file: c:\program files\gsak\temp\temp.ini sometimes it says it can;t create the file c:\program files\gsak\babel.txt It crashes randomly throughout the macro. Sometimes will be almost done before it crashes and sometimes it will have barely started. Any ideas on what is going on? I've tried re-installing gsak and that doesn't do it. I've also made sure all the permissions & rights and files are wide open. any help is greatly appreciated. thanks jjb

its another WAAS satelite, I think its goign to be on longitude -107

not yet, your stuck with just 50 charachters until/unless Magellan provides a firmware update to add extra.

I will say something I find impressive about my new Explorist 500. With my old Garmin Vista, I have never recevied a WAAS lock. I live in Utah, so its probably not the best place for it. Well, First time out with the new Explorst 500, I get a WAAS lock with 7 foot accuracy. WOW!!!. Now, with the exploist I get a waas lock almost all the time, except in bad conditions, like a deep canyon. Not sure if its the 14 channels, newer processors or what, but I like it. It also seems to hold onto a lock better in bad conditions than the vista.

http://www.bixnet.com/usbbatterybox.html just turn the cable so that the cable points up from the back of the gps

I'm the owner of an Earthcache, and have not received any e-mails from the powers that be, about it getting moved to Waymarking.com In contrast, all locationless cache owners have been contacted about this. SO, I think your ok, for your september trip. I think it will still be a while, before we are forced to move existing virtuals, earthcaches, webcams etc to wm.com Their note, just meant that all NEW ones will go to wm.com starting september 1st

Oh yeah, we also got a new Magellan Explorist and more prizes on the way from our FTF on the Magellan Be There cache in Utah!!

I got $60 in cash from this cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...b8-98374d0d12bf

yes, there is a little antipathy towards geocachers from letterboxers. Not sure I understand why. I think jeremy may have tried to get them to move all letterboxes to geocaching.com

expertgps however .loc is being phased out in favor of .gpx (the guy who wrote expertgps invented both loc and gpx file types)

for those who don;t know, magellan has not yet included waypoint projection as a feature of the eXplorist series. however, it can still be done. sort of. If you need to project a waypoint from your current location, to another, you can do this by simply moving the cursor on the map screen. It will display the distance and bearing from your current location. If you're doing an offset geocache, with only a small projection, just zoom way in, and you can project by small amounts too.

you can lose the memory in your garmin if you accidentaly put the batteries in backwards. Otherwise you should be ok, leaveing the batteries out for YEARS without losing memory.

regular poi's and geocache poi's have different extensions, so if you tell the gps to look for geocaches, it wil only see geocache poi's. it doesn;t matter where they are stored, you can always browse to another folder. The geocache folder is just where it starts looking. Same thing with regular poi's, it will not see geocache poi's, and defaults to the my poi's folder

you mean like this cache, in the back of a guys truck. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...98-f18a6e9e3213 its temp unavailable right now, because the guy is on an LDS mission, but he should be back in about 6 months or so.

How about a special category for the truely locationless? Inside this category, moving locationless waymarks could be put, for items that have no fixed location, such as Yellow Jeep Fever, the Oscar Mayer Weiner mobile, or the hippie VW Microbus. Each of those would be a waymark unto itself, which people can then log. This way, the waymark database doesn;t get cluttered with thousand of waymarks for places where people have spotted yellow jeeps or hippie busses. what do you think? jjb

I know the Yellow Jeep Fever locationless was archived, but my understanding was that it had to be, because of some inherent limitations of the gc.com database structure (too many logged finds caused problems with pq's). Is there any chance the Yellow Jeep Fever Locationless can become a Category on Waymarking.com ??? jjb

as far as I'm concerned the best sfotware for managing waypoints, routes, and tracks is expertgps available at www.expertgps.com it will also plot all your data on USGS topo maps (the whole USA is available) and high res B&W air photos. You can also create new data on the maps and transfer them to your gps. pretty good for only $60. They have a demo which is fuly functional for 30 days. the current beta adds a lot of functionality. its at http://www.expertgps.com/beta.asp for free try www.easygps.com or http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/g7towin.htm no maps or air photos though.

I like this idea lot. we have to have a place to put good geological sites & features

I like the idea too. I have a lot I could put into it. How about, not just fossil collecting localities, but Rocks & Minerals too?